Searching Arrays..

[crisward]

Is there a quick way to search an array, specifically for use in combo boxes in mx...


Cris.

[jerebear44]

that's something I have to deal with as well. As far as I've been able to find, the easiest way is to just have a looping variable and put that in yourarray[i] and have your frame rate pretty high. I'll let you know though if I find anything.

- jeremy

[crisward]

I realise you can do this with a 'loop while' statement and having a count until it equals array length, this just seems a bit messy though.

I was hoping MX might have come up with a neat command to sort this. Perhaps I should set up a function with (arrayname, searchstring ) and use this for all my array searches.

Cris.

[jerebear44]

Yeah, that's actually what I did.

I use an array to keep track of buildings in my downtown area and dynamically create buttons. There are 208 entries in each of my 4 arrays.

Here's what I am talking about:

http://www.islandathens.com/index2.html

click on Categories at the top and choose a group.

It searched through them pretty quickly, but I think my framerate is 60/second. But that'll change depending on your graphics card.

Lemme know how it goes.

- Jeremy